Social Systems Theory外文电子书籍.pptVIP

Social Systems Theory Human Behavior and the Social Environment Characteristics It is comprehensive It offers greater potential for description and integration of disparate theories into a single framework that any other framework. It provides suggestive leads For all sectors of human behavior It has the potential to provide a common language. Parsimony It allows the reduction of theories to a framework that can be mastered. Providing Meaning to Theory General systems theory, which includes the narrower field of social systems, is a cross-disciplinary body of scientific thought that developed during the twentieth century. Social systems perspective: a philosophical viewpoint on the relationship of person with their social environment. Social systems model: meaning that it is at the same time a hypothesis to be tested, primarily through its application to professional practice. Systems perspective provides the best theoretical basis for the study of human communication. Systems/Systemic Thinking System: A set of things or parts forming a whole. A complex unity formed of many often diverse parts subject to a common plan or serving a common purpose. Systemic Thinking: Using the mind to recognize pattern, conceive unity, and form some coherent wholeness – to seek to complete the picture. Systems consists of elements that are capable of being understood. Systemic thinking includes those ways of thinking that seek to understand coherence and connectedness of all life. Thought is patterned and imposed on the world as experienced by the perceiver. Comprehension of the part/whole nature of life is the central tenet of systemic thinking. A social system is composed of persons or groups of persons who interact and mutually influence each other’s behavior. A social system is a bounded set of interrelated activities that together constitute a single entity. Polar Positions Systems exist at all levels: Persons Families Organizations Communities Societies Cultures What is a